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Newcastle Authors	Title	Year
Dr Claire Bradford Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Tim Townshend Dr Amelia Lake	'Acceleration' of the food delivery marketplace: Perspectives of local authority professionals in the North-East of England on temporary COVID regulations	2024
Mirjam Seeliger Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Leo Rempelos Dr Paul Bilsborrow	New fungal primers reveal the diversity of Mucoromycotinian arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their response to nitrogen application	2024
Dr Erin McClymont Dr Beate Christgen Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Microbial Communities in the Weathering Zone—implications for Oxidative Weathering	2023
Dr Catherine Gandy Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Obioma Mejeha Dr Angela Sherry Professor Adam Jarvis et al.	Use of propionic acid additions to enhance zinc removal from mine drainage in short residence time, flow-through sulfate-reducing bioreactors	2023
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	A nation that rebuilds its soils rebuild itself- an engineer’s perspective	2022
Dr Joana Baptista Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Singleton Dr Clare McCann Professor David Manning et al.	Bacterial communities in soils as indicators of the potential of syenite as an agromineral	2022
Dr Geoffrey Abbott Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head Dr Mark Stevenson	Biogeochemical consequences of a changing Arctic shelf seafloor ecosystem	2022
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Jan Dolfing	Contribution of periphytic biofilm of paddy soils to carbon dioxide fixation and methane emissions	2022
Katie Gilmour Dr Colin Davie Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Microbial community of MX80 bentonite and their interaction with iron	2022
Katie Gilmour Dr Colin Davie Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Survival and activity of an indigenous iron-reducing microbial community from MX80 bentonite in high temperature / low water environments with relevance to a proposed method of nuclear waste disposal	2022
Dr Graham Purvis Dr Naoko Sano Dr Cees van der Land Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Elisa Lopez-Capel et al.	A comparison of the molecular composition of plant and fungal structuralbiopolymer standards with the organic material in early cretaceous OntongJava Plateau Tuff	2021
Katie Gilmour Dr Colin Davie Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	An indigenous iron-reducing microbial community from MX80 bentonite - A study in the framework of nuclear waste disposal	2021
Dr Priscilla Carrillo-Barragan Dr Jan Dolfing Dr Paul Sallis Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	The stability of ethanol production from organic waste by a mixed culture depends on inoculum transfer time	2021
Leanne Blake Dr Angela Sherry Obioma MEJEHA Dr Peter Leary Professor Ian Head et al.	An Unexpectedly Broad Thermal and Salinity-Tolerant Estuarine Methanogen Community	2020
Dr Peter Leary Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Andrew Fuller	Controls on anthropogenic radionuclide distribution in the Sellafield-impacted Eastern Irish Sea	2020
Dr Burhan Shamurad Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Shamas Tabraiz Dr Paul Sallis et al.	Improving the methane productivity of anaerobic digestion using aqueous extracts from municipal solid waste incinerator ash	2020
Natalia Sierra Garcia Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	In depth metagenomic analysis in contrasting oil wells reveals syntrophic bacterial and archaeal associations for oil biodegradation in petroleum reservoirs	2020
Dr Burhan Shamurad Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Dr Jan Dolfing Marcos Quintela-Baluja et al.	Low Temperature Pre-treatment of Organic Feedstocks with Selected Mineral Wastes Sustains Anaerobic Digestion Stability through Trace Metal Release	2020
Dr Angela Sherry Dr Russell Grant Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Martin Jones Bernard Bowler et al.	Methanogenic crude oil-degrading microbial consortia are not universally abundant in anoxic environments	2020
Dr Peter Leary Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Organic complexation of U(VI) in reducing soils at a natural analogue site: Implications for uranium transport	2020
Dr Burhan Shamurad Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Shamas Tabraiz Edward MEMBERE et al.	Predicting the effects of integrating mineral wastes in anaerobic digestion of OFMSW using first-order and Gompertz models from biomethane potential assays	2020
Dr Burhan Shamurad Dr Paul Sallis Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Shamas Tabraiz Dr Peter Leary et al.	Stable biogas production from single-stage anaerobic digestion of food waste	2020
Dr Mark Stevenson Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Geoffrey Abbott	Transformation of organic matter in a Barents Sea sediment profile: coupled geochemical and microbiological processes	2020
Obioma Mejeha Professor Ian Head Dr Angela Sherry Dr Clare McCann Dr Peter Leary et al.	Beyond N and P: The impact of Ni on crude oil biodegradation	2019
Dr Burhan Shamurad Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Shamas Tabraiz Dr Kishor Acharya et al.	Co-digestion of organic and mineral wastes for enhanced biogas production: Reactor performance and evolution of microbial community and function	2019
Dr Graham Purvis Dr Cees van der Land Dr Elisa Lopez-Capel James Hood Dr Jake Sheriff et al.	Combining thermal hydrolysis and methylation-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to characterise complex organic assemblages in geological material	2019
Dr Burhan Shamurad Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Evangelos Petropoulos Shamas Tabraiz Dr Kishor Acharya et al.	Data of metal and microbial analyses from anaerobic co-digestion of organic and mineral wastes	2019
Dr Priscilla Carrillo-Barragan Bernard Bowler Dr Jan Dolfing Dr Paul Sallis Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	Enrichment and characterisation of a mixed-source ethanologenic community degrading the organic fraction of municipal solid waste under minimal environmental control	2019
Dr Graham Purvis Dr Cees van der Land Dr Naoko Sano Dr Elisa Lopez-Capel Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	The organic stratigraphy of Ontong Java Plateau Tuff correlated with the depth‐related presence and absence of putative microbial alteration structures	2019
Dr Clare McCann Dr Beate Christgen Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor David Graham	Understanding drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in High Arctic soil ecosystems	2019
Dr Clare McCann Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil	2018
Dr Graham Purvis Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Naoko Sano Dr Anders Barlow Dr Geoffrey Abbott et al.	Decontamination of geological samples by gas cluster ion beam etching or ultra violet/ozone	2017
Dr Lynsay Blake Professor David Manning Dr Paul Sallis Dr Harriet Hutchinson Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	Evaluating an anaerobic digestion (AD) feedstock derived from a novel non-source segregated municipal solid waste (MSW) product	2017
Dr Angela Sherry Dr Beate Christgen Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	How to access and exploit natural resources sustainably: petroleum biotechnology	2017
Dr Kate Osborne Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Peter Leary Obioma MEJEHA et al.	Methanotroph-derived bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) signatures as a function of temperature related growth, survival, cell death and preservation in the geological record	2017
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Microbial diversity in degraded and non degraded petroleum samples and comparison across oil reservoirs at local and global scales	2017
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Technical feasibility and experimental development of sand recycling options for dairy cattle bedding	2017
Dr Angela Sherry Kate Osborne Frances Sidgwick Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Helen Talbot et al.	A temperate river estuary is a sink for methanotrophs adapted to extremes of pH, temperature and salinity	2016
Dr Naoko Sano Dr Graham Purvis Dr Anders Barlow Dr Geoffrey Abbott Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	Gas cluster ion beam for the characterization of organic materials in submarine basalts as Mars analogs	2016
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Microbial Biotechnology 2020; microbiology of fossil fuel resources	2016
Dr Clare McCann Dr Matthew Wade Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Casey Hubert Professor David Graham et al.	Microbial Communities in a High Arctic polar desert landscape	2016
Dr Clare McCann Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Russell Davenport Dr Matthew Wade	Remediation of a historically Pb contaminated soil using a model natural Mn oxide waste	2015
Dr Lynsay Blake Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Response of methanogens in Arctic sediments to temperature and methanogenic substrate availability	2015
Dr Graham Purvis Dr Elisa Lopez-Capel Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Thomas Wagner Dr Christian Maerz et al.	Towards a mechanistic understanding of carbon stabilization in manganese oxides	2015
Dr Kirsten Brandt Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Maggie White Professor David Manning	Comparison of silicate minerals as sources of potassium for plant nutrition in sandy soil	2014
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Family Achromatiaceae	2014
Dr Arvind Singh Dr Angela Sherry Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Martin Jones Bernard Bowler et al.	Kinetic parameters for nutrient enhanced crude oil biodegradation in intertidal marine sediments	2014
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Stephen Larter	Life in the slow lane; biogeochemistry of biodegraded petroleum containing reservoirs and implications for energy recovery and carbon management	2014
Professor Adam Jarvis Jane Davis Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Patrick Orme Dr Catherine Gandy et al.	Mitigation of pollution from abandoned metal mines: Investigation of passive compost bioreactor systems for treatment of abandoned metal mine discharges	2014
Dr Clare McCann Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Russell Davenport Dr Matthew Wade Dr Karen Johnson et al.	Natural MnOx wastes as a novel remediation technology for Pb contaminated soils	2014
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Clare McCann Dr Beate Christgen Professor David Graham	Soil geochemistry confines microbial abundances across an Arctic landscape; Implications for net carbon exchange with the atmosphere	2014
Dr Karen Johnson Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Graham Purvis Dr Elisa Lopez-Capel	Stabilisation and fractionation of carbon in manganese oxides	2014
Dr Angela Sherry Dr Russell Grant Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Martin Jones Professor Ian Head et al.	Volatile hydrocarbons inhibit methanogenic crude oil degradation	2014
Dr Angela Sherry Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Martin Jones Professor Stephen Larter et al.	Anaerobic biodegradation of crude oil under sulphate-reducing conditions leads to only modest enrichment of recognized sulphate-reducing taxa	2013
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Application of molecular methods as a biomarker in bioremediation studies	2013
Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Martin Jones Michael Maguire Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry et al.	Evidence that crude oil alkane activation proceeds by different mechanisms under sulfate-reducing and methanogenic conditions	2013
Cameron Callbeck Dr Angela Sherry Dr Casey Hubert Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head et al.	Improving PCR efficiency for accurate quantification of 16S rRNA genes	2013
Dr Asfaw Zegeye Sani Yahaya Dr Claire Fialips Maggie White Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	Refinement of industrial kaolin by microbial removal of iron-bearing impurities	2013
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Thomas Oldenburg Professor Stephen Larter Professor Ian Head et al.	The controls on the composition of biodegraded oils in the deep subsurface - Part 3. The impact of microorganism distribution on petroleum geochemical gradients in biodegraded petroleum reservoirs	2013
Dr Casey Hubert Thomas Oldenburg Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Stephen Larter Dr Arlene Rowan et al.	Massive dominance of Epsilonproteobacteria in formation waters from a Canadian oil sands reservoir containing severely biodegraded oil	2012
Professor Adam Jarvis Dr Catherine Gandy Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Mitigation of pollution from abandoned metal mines Part 1: Review of passive treatment technologies for metal mine drainage remediation	2012
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Catherine Gandy Professor Adam Jarvis	Mitigation of pollution from abandoned metal mines Part 2: Review of resource recovery options from the passive remediation of metal-rich mine waters	2012
Dr Ernest Chi Fru Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Clare McCann Dr Joana Baptista Dr Beate Christgen et al.	Effects of copper mineralogy and methanobactin on cell growth and sMMO activity in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b	2011
Dr Jan Dolfing Dr Angela Sherry Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Quantification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbial communities in biogas processes	2011
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Russell Grant Dr Arlene Rowan Dr Casey Hubert et al.	The quantitative significance of Syntrophaceae and syntrophic partnerships in methanogenic degradation of crude oil alkanes	2011
Professor Ian Head Professor Stephen Larter Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Martin Jones et al.	Hydrocarbon Degradation in Petroleum Reservoirs	2010
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Casey Hubert Dr Jan Dolfing Professor Ian Head et al.	Methanogenic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in subsurface environments: remediation, heavy oil formation, and energy recovery	2010
Dr Angela Sherry Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Jan Dolfing	Microbial oil degradation under methanogenic conditions	2010
Dr Claire Fialips Dr Martin Jones Maggie White Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Reductive Degradation of p,p'-DDT by Fe(II) in Nontronite NAu-2	2010
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Carolyn Aitken Dr Angela Sherry Professor Ian Head Mari Jones et al.	Biogenic methane production from subsurface petroleum systems: organisms and mechanisms	2009
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Professor Stephen Larter Professor Ian Head	Biogenic methane production in formation waters from a large gas field in the North Sea	2009
Dr Arvind Singh Dr Angela Sherry Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Martin Jones Professor Ian Head et al.	How Specific Microbial Communities Benefit the Oil Industry: Dynamics of Alcanivorax spp. in Oil Contaminated Intertidal Beach Sediments Undergoing Bioremediation	2009
Dr Jan Dolfing Dr Aiping Xu Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Stephen Larter Professor Ian Head et al.	The thermodynamic landscape of methanogenic PAH degradation	2009
Dr Jan Dolfing Dr Aiping Xu Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Stephen Larter Professor Ian Head et al.	Thermodynamic constraints on methanogenic PAH degradation	2009
Dr Martin Jones Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Arlene Rowan Dr Carolyn Aitken et al.	Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs	2008
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Microbial Ecology	2008
Dr Clare McCann Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Russell Davenport	Mn oxide as a contaminated-land remediation product	2008
Dr Asfaw Zegeye Dr Claire Fialips Maggie White Professor David Manning Emeritus Professor Neil Gray et al.	Refinement of kaolin and silica sand by microbial removal of iron impurities	2008
Dr Vassilis Kitidis Louise Tizzard Dr Guenther Uher Professor Robert Upstill-Goddard Professor Ian Head et al.	The biogeochemical cycling of methane in Ria de Vigo, NW Spain: Sediment processing and sea-air exchange	2007
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Arlene Rowan Professor Ian Head	The biogeographical distribution of closely related freshwater sediment bacteria is determined by environmental selection	2007
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Angela Sherry Dr Darryl Nelson Dr Arlene Rowan Alison Pickard et al.	The biogeographical distribution of closely related freshwater sediment bacteria is determined by environmental selection	2007
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor John Matthews Professor Ian Head	A stable isotope titration method to determine the contribution of acetate disproportionation and carbon dioxide reduction to methanogenesis	2006
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	The unique role of intracellular calcification in the genus Achromatium	2006
Professor Bruce Logan Cassandro Murano Emeritus Professor Keith Scott Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head et al.	Electricity generation from cysteine in a microbial fuel cell	2005
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Minerals, mats, pearls and veils: themes and variations in giant sulfur bacteria	2005
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Thomas Curtis Professor Ian Head	Response of the Soil Bacterial Community to Perturbation	2005
Dr Vassilis Kitidis Louise Tizzard Dr Guenther Uher Professor Robert Upstill-Goddard Professor Ian Head et al.	The biogeochemical cycling of methane in a shallow coastal inlet at the onset and end of seasonal upwelling (Ria de Vigo, NW Spain)	2005
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	The impact of sludge amendment on gas dynamics in an upland soil: Monitored by membrane inlet mass spectrometry	2005
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	The impact of sludge amendment on methanogen community structure in an upland soil	2005
Dr Vassilis Kitidis Professor Robert Upstill-Goddard Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Louise Tizzard et al.	A combined geophysical-biogeochemical study of methane cycling in a shallow coastal inlet (Ria de Vigo, NW Spain)	2004
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Ian Miskin Professor Ian Head	Adaptation of sympatric Achromatium spp. to different redox conditions as a mechanism for coexistence of functionally similar sulphur bacteria	2004
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Effects of soil improvement treatments on bacterial community structure and soil processes in an upland grassland soil	2003
Dr Arlene Rowan Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Thomas Curtis Dr Michael Barer Professor Ian Head et al.	A comparative study of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in lab-scale industrial wastewater treatment reactors	2002
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Dr Ian Miskin Professor Thomas Curtis Professor Ian Head	Occurrence and activity of Archaea in aerated activated sludge wastewater treatment plants	2002
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Linking genetic identity and function in communities of uncultured bacteria	2001
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Richard Howarth	Achromatium oxaliferum: Understanding the unmistakable	2000
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Richard Howarth	Achromatium oxaliferum: understanding the unmistakable	2000
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Uncultured giant sulfur bacteria of the genus Achromatium	2000
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Richard Howarth Professor Ian Head	Use of combined microautoradiography and fluorescence in situ hybridization to determine carbon metabolism in mixed natural communities of uncultured bacteria from the genus Achromatium	2000
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Richard Howarth Dr Arlene Rowan Professor Ian Head	Natural communities of Achromatium oxaliferum comprise genetically, morphologically, and ecologically distinct subpopulations	1999
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	New insights on old bacteria: bacterial diversity and function in aquatic ecosystems	1999
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	New insights on old bacteria: Diversity and function of morphologically conspicuous sulfur bacteria in aquatic systems	1999
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Richard Howarth Professor Ian Head	Substrate uptake by uncultured bacteria from the genus Achromatium determined by microautoradiography	1999
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Platinum group minerals from the Broken Hill District, New South Wales	1998
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	Unnamed Palladium Telluride Minerals from Broken Hill, New South Wales	1998
Emeritus Professor Neil Gray Professor Ian Head	Ecophysiological evidence that Achromatium oxaliferum is responsible for the oxidation of reduced sulfur species to sulfate in a freshwater sediment	1997
Professor Ian Head Emeritus Professor Neil Gray	The phylogenetic position and ultrastructure of the uncultured bacterium Achromatium oxaliferum	1996